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Investment Nuggets
Vietnam war veteran and self-made money manager, John Calamos, has an estimated current net worth of around $3 billion. After founding Calamos Asset Management in 1977, he made steady progress in Wall Street armed with exceptional ...
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Follow a portfolio approach
Most of us make ’buy-sell’ decisions in an impulsive manner.Taking a ‘portfolio approach’ to such decisions can make life simpler.
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MUTUAL FUNDS
Biased towards large-cap stocks
Over the past one month, the stock markets have been touching new highs without taking much cognizance of the seeming uncertainties on the political front. The fed rate cut appeared to be the instigating force behind this rally that was ...
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Focus on infrastructure
Theme-based funds tend to reward investors when clear trends are discernible in various sectors. For the past year it was the turn of infrastructure funds to outpace their diversified peers, and by a good margin. Here is how the theme based ...
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Fund Talk
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Update
HDFC Mutual Fund has recently launched HDFC Arbitrage Fund, an open-ended equity scheme. The fund seeks to generate income by investing predominantly in arbitrage opportunities between the cash and derivative segment and ...
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STOCKS
BL Kashyap going for stock spilt
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Birla Kennametal plans stock spilt
Birla Kennametal Ltd has informed that October 31 has been fixed as the record date for the purpose of sub-division of each of fully paid-up equity shares of Rs 10 each into five equity shares of Rs 2 each. — Our ...
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STOCK MARKETS
Consider straddle on Nifty
Critical factors Implied volatility jumps for putsNifty future commands higher premium
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SMART MESSAGE
M&As and stock calls
Is the company in which you hold shares an acquisition target? Here is how you prepare your ground in order to take sensible hold or sell decisions.
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Time for VaR rebalancing in stocks?
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Reliance
RIL continued its gravity-defying act; rising to an intra week high of Rs 2,724. But Friday’s gyration accompanied by record volumes can be interpreted as a key reversal. This pattern coincides with the completion of a five-wave ...
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SBI
SBI reversed from Rs 1,750 to move to an intra-week high of Rs 1,958. But the downward reversal witnessed on Friday leads us to assume that the short-term correction that commenced from October 1 is still underway. This correction can make the ...
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Breathless chase of the indices
Mutual funds in June-September quarter
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Tata Steel
Despite the sharp plunge last Monday, Tata Steel recovered strongly to achieve our short-term target of Rs 893. The stock appears to have completed the move that commenced from the August 17 trough. The subsequent move could be a ...
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Infosys
Pre-earnings euphoria made Infosys rise to an intra week high of Rs 2,140 but the sharp plunge over the last two sessions corroborates our view that the stock will move in the band between Rs 1,700 and Rs 2,100 over the medium term. Infosys ...
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Bharti Airtel
Bharti Airtel was in no mood to consolidate sideways as we had expected, electing to surge a whopping 8 per cent for the week instead. It is either a third or a fifth wave extension, both of which denote a strong bullish under current in the ...
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Satyam Computers
Though Satyam Computer moved slightly beyond our medium term range between Rs 400 and Rs 470 last week, the nasty tumble that followed proves that the stock is yet to launch in to a sustainable up trend. The immediate support for the ...
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‘India still a favourite market’
“I will not be surprised if we get a little bit of correction but we still have a long-term bull market here”.
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Query Corner
I want to know the future prospect of Sterlite Industries purchased at Rs 595. A. NathSterlite Industries (Rs 814.20): Sterlite Industries recorded a significant trough in June 2006 ...
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Trader's Corner
Run-away bull markets are not rare in the history of stock markets. After rallying in the face of all odds and surmounting a wall of scepticism, markets come to a stage when they suddenly break-out and begin a dizzying climb upward.Many ...
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FOREIGN INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS
Sical Logistics to hike FII limit
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INTERVIEW
Honestly, who is making money these days?
Like Cade in King Henry VI, you may fear ‘neither sword nor fire,’ but being ‘whipped three market-days together’, as the Bard’s Dick says, could be real trouble. To help, Boult volunteers in Pericles, ...
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RECOMMENDATION
Magnum COMMA Fund: Invest
For investors who already hold equity funds in their portfolio, SBI Mutual Fund’s Magnum COMMA Fund appears to be a good option to diversify. The fund focuses on stocks of commodity companies and thus its returns are likely to be linked ...
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Gokaldas Exports — Open offer: Accept
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Templeton India Equity: Invest
Templeton India Equity Income Fund (TEIF) appears to be a good option for investors looking to diversify their equity portfolio. A global investment universe and value investing strategy are two key features of this fund that may provide some ...
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Indiabulls Real Estate: Book profits
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Carborundum Universal: Buy
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Asahi India Glass: Hold
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OUTLOOK
Index Outlook
It has been a good beginning to the festival season with the Indian markets swirling to the Dandiya beat despite the discordant note struck by our political leaders. The corrections that ventured to rear their heads were trampled underneath as ...
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Market View
Rare has been the year over the past decade-and-half when markets have stepped into October in such a bullish state. Usually stock prices tend to be tepid in the July-September quarter and make an upward move from October and more ...
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What’s Ahead
The week will see companies such as TCS, Axis Bank, HCL Technologies, Reliance Energy and Wipro announcing results. Among other heavyweights, ACC, Reliance Industries and Ranbaxy will declare their quarterly results on October ...
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